git-credential-store(1) Manual Page

NAME

git-credential-store -
helper to store credentials on disk

SYNOPSIS

git config credential.helper 'store [options]'

DESCRIPTION

Note

Using this helper will store your passwords unencrypted on disk,
protected only by filesystem permissions. If this is not an acceptable
security tradeoff, try git-credential-cache(1), or find a helper
that integrates with secure storage provided by your operating system.

This command stores credentials indefinitely on disk for use by future
git programs.

You probably don’t want to invoke this command directly; it is meant to
be used as a credential helper by other parts of git. See
gitcredentials(7) or EXAMPLES below.

OPTIONS

--store=<path>

Use <path> to store credentials. The file will have its
filesystem permissions set to prevent other users on the system
from reading it, but will not be encrypted or otherwise
protected. Defaults to ~/.git-credentials.

EXAMPLES

The point of this helper is to reduce the number of times you must type
your username or password. For example:

STORAGE FORMAT

The .git-credentials file is stored in plaintext. Each credential is
stored on its own line as a URL like:

https://user:pass@example.com

When git needs authentication for a particular URL context,
credential-store will consider that context a pattern to match against
each entry in the credentials file. If the protocol, hostname, and
username (if we already have one) match, then the password is returned
to git. See the discussion of configuration in gitcredentials(7)
for more information.